Aquarium

Abstract

The invention relates to an aquarium designed to simulate a television set for aesthetic reasons. The invention involves providing an aquarium assembly having a one piece frame member with a floor section and four vertical wall sections including a front wall section. All of the wall sections of the frame member have openings and transparent sheet material for covering the openings are attached to the inside of the wall sections in fluid sealing relation. Decorator panels for selected ones of the openings other than the opening of the front wall section are provided having respectively the same sizes as the selected openings and are attachable as covers for the selected openings by press fitting from the exteriors of the three vertical wall sections. The aquarium has a hood and the decorator panels have external coverings which harmonize with the external coverings of the frame member and the hood. The panels have aesthetically choosen internal coverings which produce a desired visual effect when viewed through the opening of the front wall. In the front part of the aquarium, for viewing purposes, is a bubble bar tank having closely spaced side walls of a transparent material. A perforated tube in the bubble bar tank extends horizontally along the bottom thereof and has a series of air outlet ports. An air feeding tube is connected to the bubble tube for supplying pressurized air thereto. Air escaping from the bubble bar outlet ports bubbles up through the liquid in the bubble bar tank to produce a desired viewing effect.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. An aquarium assembly, comprising, a one piece frame member having a floor section and four vertical wall sections including a front wall section, said wall sections having openings, transparent sheet material for covering said openings being attached to the inside of said wall sections in fluid sealing relation thereto, decorator panels for selected ones of said openings of said vertical wall sections other than said front wall section, said panels being respectively the same sizes as said selected openings and attachable as covers for said selected openings by press fitting from the exteriors of said three vertical wall sections, a hood for said aquarium, said panels having external coverings which harmonize with the external coverings of said frame member and said hood, said panels having aesthetically chosen internal coverings which produce a desired visual effect when viewed through said opening of said front wall section, a bubble bar receptacle having closely spaced side walls of a transparent material, said receptacle being installed in said tank in parallel and closely spaced relation to said front wall section of said tank, a perforated bubble tube in said receptacle extending horizontally along the bottom thereof, said bubble tube having a series of air outlet ports extending in spaced relation at the top and across the length thereof, an air feeding tube in said receptacle connected to said bubble tube and extending vertically in closely spaced relation to one end of said receptacle, an air inlet fitting attached to the top of said tank, tube means between said air feeding tube and said air inlet fitting, and a liquid in said receptacle through which air bubbles from said bubble tube may rise to produce a desired viewing effect. 
     
     
       2. An aquarium assembly according to claim 1 wherein said liquid in said receptacle is colored. 
     
     
       3. An aquarium assembly according to claim 1 wherein said liquid has a specific gravity different than water. 
     
     
       4. An aquarium assembly according to claim 1 wherein said bubble tube is covered with a layer of pebbles of a desired specific weight so that air escaping from said ports causes movement of said pebbles.